playful - Story 105197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin a little faster for Jessica. She tapped her foot impatiently in the waiting room. Mrs. Carter? She had a feeling she knew how to get Mrs. Carter laughing. The memories were flooding back, and this felt right.

She walked towards her son's classroom, humming a little tune under her breath. It was time for a secret.

"Max!" she called out, as soon as she saw him.

Max turned around, looking at her quizzically. "Mom? Why are you wiggling like that?"

Jessica just laughed. "I have a secret you won't believe!"

Emotion: playful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.42 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion playful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 playful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the playful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the playful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`B`	0.662
`(!)`	0.566
`!`	0.562
`!?`	0.553
`😜`	0.553

Suppressed:

`ness`	-0.685
`😞`	-0.590
`S`	-0.562
`😔`	-0.470
`идти`	-0.461